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Table 3 Cumulative rescue analgesic requirement per patient

From: A comparative study of buprenorphine in two different doses as an adjuvant to levobupivacaine in US-guided lumbar plexus block for postoperative analgesia

Variable

Group L (n = 30)

Group BL (n = 30)

Group BH (n = 30)

F ratio

Statistical significance (ANOVA and Tukey’s HSD post hoc test)

No. of analgesic doses per patient

3.10 ± 0.40

1.77 ± 0.50

1.33 ± 0.48

118.12

0.001*

(L and BL, p = 0.001)

(L and BH, p = 0.001)

(BL and BH, p = 0.001)

  1. Values expressed as mean ± SD
  2. *p value < 0.050